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Foreword / Ericka Dunlap
"We bring you beauty in bronze": Early African American pageant tradition and the revision of a limited beauty standard
"They didn't have many queens my color": Colorism, community and growing up during Jim Crow
"There was a virtual epidemic of negro homecoming queens": Brewing unrest and pageants as student activism in the Civil Rights Movement
"This is better than being MIss America": African Americans in mainstream contests and the emergence of the Miss Black America Pageant during the Black Power Era
"Stepping out into finer womanhood": Football classics, coronations and a local civil rights legend training queens in respectability and representation
"Black beauty wins every year": Miss Black USA's founder and the lasting legacy of African American pageants.
"We bring you beauty in bronze": Early African American pageant tradition and the revision of a limited beauty standard
"They didn't have many queens my color": Colorism, community and growing up during Jim Crow
"There was a virtual epidemic of negro homecoming queens": Brewing unrest and pageants as student activism in the Civil Rights Movement
"This is better than being MIss America": African Americans in mainstream contests and the emergence of the Miss Black America Pageant during the Black Power Era
"Stepping out into finer womanhood": Football classics, coronations and a local civil rights legend training queens in respectability and representation
"Black beauty wins every year": Miss Black USA's founder and the lasting legacy of African American pageants.